You need a lot of space for these lizards as they are active, they for the most part have went down for the winter in nature. You need a Mercury Vapor bulb and a basking bulb, you don't say how long it is, but given it is an adult I wouldn't use anything less than a 40 gallon cage. THe hot side needs to be about 110 degrees and ambient temps 85 to 90 degrees, probably 85 on the cool side.



These lizards can jump when hot so be careful when cleaning your cage. They will eat wax worms, crickets, and small king mealworms. They need to be warm before they will eat. Depending on you house tmeps and weather he is in good conditiion or not, you may want to get an under the tank heater if you live where your house temps are real cold. The only reason for that is to keep the temps up enough so he's active and eating if its too cold and there is toomuch of a disparagence between night temps and day temps he will not feed as redily as he should.



YOu should put in a lizard cave, a few flat rocks, and some fake plants or even a small branch close to the ground. They like to sit on some hight point and survey there surroundings, but they also dig into the ground, use home depot play sand for this lizard and about 3 to 4 inches of sand for substrate. You'll spray the rocks and fake plants from time to time maybe once a week and see if he will lick off the glass and rocks for mositure. They also retian mositure from the food they eat. This lizard should be fattened up if its not in good condition and then hibernated if it is an adult. Please post pictures of the animal and the length of the lizard, also if you can take picture of the underside males have very bright coloration.



This is the basics in my opinion, certianly someone else might chime in, also these lizards will eat flowers and some greenery. So you might try rose pedals, or kale or some other greenery, no regualr lettuce though. Make sure the flowers have not been sprayed by some chemical........Cheers!!!
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